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I wouldn't mind the swing state..... PA votes the way it votes regardless of popular vote. Makes you not even want to bother voting since it doesn't seem to matter :frown2:

 

:cornut: I voted yesterday(Texas early voting) at our county court house. Line was some what long but went very quickly as it takes very little time for Texans to hit the Rep****can straight(Rep****can State for close to 50yrs now) ticket button and 'Ka Ching' I'm outa here.

Jason

 

^^^Amen, brother...

 

I do not agree with Obama about much, but during the last debate he made a comment about too many TV ads. I couldn’t agree more. I live in Northern Virginia; I can’t imagine what Ohio must be like.

 

Good or bad it is part of the process, I'm one for outlawing all telephone solicitations of every kind.

That said there is much at stake over the next four years, so a few weeks of ads on TV and hanging up on telephone callers is a small price to pay compared to the last four years....

 

I wouldn't think about where the money goes, but where it comes from. Individuals and organisations don't 'invest' big money in campaigns without expecting some return - and that may be (doesn't have to be) a profoundly undemocratic effect. In this instance the US is a shining beacon to quite a few other countries of what not to do or to let happen - in my country there is the first shoots of a programme to fund political parties from state funds (you're welcome to call it 'socialist political funding' if you want...) in proportion to previous election results, precisely to avoid this issue of what a campaign contribution buys you.

Or did that sound too much like Ross Perot?

Oh, and we complain because although political parties are severely limited here on what they can spend on TV advertising, they do get two or three 5-minute prime time slots across all (terrestrial) TV channels and those slots are enough to trigger the same complaints here...... :mad2:

 

We get 5 or 6 calls a day in nh...polls, about 5 pieces of mail, adds, and nonstop adds on tv....that and now they are actually knocking on our door....almost every day....go figure.

 

We're also considered a swing state (IA) and we seem to be completed inundated with telly and radio commercials, robo- and real human phone calls, and repeated physical presence of the candidates...

...and we're not even close to the electoral vote slot machine jackpot represented by OH and FL. I can't even imagine how bad it must be for you folks. :frown5:

 

I hang up my cell phone for calls and txt several times a day. My home phone rings at lease 3 times a day.

Please someone pass a law to stop robo calls and election calls.

When I do get a real person calling I ask them who they want me to vote for. When they answer I say well by you calling me you just confirmed my vote for the other guy FOR BOTHERING ME AT HOME !

 

I'm in Ohio. 8-10 on the home line. Another 4-6 on the office line. We dvr everything to skip the ads. 2/3 of the commercials are political ads. I would love to not live in a swing state.

 

I've gotten Lil' B.A.D. to yell "Mittens" every time the home phone rings because we have mostly been getting calls from the Republican candidates. It is working perfectly to annoy M.A.D. (who I blame for all the calls in the first place)!

 

I disagree. The money spent on these campaigns is obscene. Just think about how all the money spent on all the campaigns and conventions could have been re-invested into the economy. I'm not just saying this election year, but across the last decade or more.

 

I've never gotten a single call?

 

I've found it convenient living in SC and voting in OH.... my ballot should arrive any day now!

 

Good point, I wasn't thinking about the fact that politician's real view of the future is only as long as the term of the office they are campaigning for.